Denis Pushilin

Denis Pushilin (9 May 1981-) was Chairman of the Donetsk People's Republic from 15 May to 18 July 2014, preceding Andrei Purgin, and Chairman of the People's Council of the DPR from 4 September 2015, succeeding Andrei Purgin.

Biography
Denis Pushilin was born on 9 May 1981 in Makiivka, Donetsk Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union. Pushilin's highest level of education was high school, and he worked with MMM at the same time as the company's use of pyramid schemes in the 1990s. On 19 May 2014 he became the self-appointed Chairman of the Donetsk People's Republic after the DPR declared its independence from Ukraine, and he survived two assassination attempts in June 2014. He announced that areas refusing to pay taxes to the DPR would be nationalized, and he briefly resigned his post before becoming chairman of the soviet once more on 4 September 2015.